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Most events will take place in Ukrainskyi Dim/Ukrainian Center on 2 Khreshchatyk St. on European Square. The Babyn Yar Project is a commemoration by the Ukrainian Jewish Encounter in cooperation with others, including World Jewish Congress. The Kyiv Post is a media partner. Babyn Yar is a ravine in Kyiv where, on Sept. 28-29, 1941, Nazi Germany occupiers shot to death 34,000 Kyivan Jews. During the next two years of German occupation, an estimated 100,000 victims were killed at Babyn Yar. More than two-thirds were Jews.

Sept. 24—Saturday

20:00 – 21:30 Film: “Holocaust: The Eastern Front” (Israel, 2016). Discussion with Boris Maftsir, director (Israel) and Dr. Igor Shchupak (Ukraine) in Ukrainian.

Sept. 25—Sunday

20:00 – 21:30 Film: “Shimon’s Return” (USA, 2014). Moderators:

Professor Shimon Redlich (Israel) and Dr. Igor Shchupak (Ukraine).

People attend a commemoration ceremony for Nazi victims near a World War II monument in Babyn Yar in Kyiv on April 10, 2015. ( photo by Unian)

Sept. 26—Monday

9:30 – 9:50 Public Symposium Opening.

10:00 – 10:15 Prologue: “Babyn Yar.”

Orchestral work by Dmytro Kytsenko, Kyiv Camerata National Ensemble, Valerii Matiukhin, conductor

10:15 – 10:25 Remarks by Adrian Karatnycky (USA) and Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (Canada).

10:25 – 10:45 Greetings from Presidential Administration, ministries, diplomatic corps.

10:45 – 12:15 Address: “Babyn Yar and the Holocaust: Remembering the Future,” Professor Timothy Snyder (USA); Moderators: Professor Guido Hausmann (Germany); Professor Yaroslav Hrytsak (Ukraine); in English with Ukrainian translation.

12:15 Break

Exhibit openings: “Babyn Yar,” triptych (1947) by Vasyl Ovchynnykov; National Art Museum of Ukraine; “Babyn Yar: Symbol of the Holocaust and Other Tragedies in Ukraine,” Ukrainian Museum of World War II History:

“Holocaust through the Eyes of Children;” Tkuma Ukrainian Institute for Holocaust Studies

13:45 – 15:15 Panel Discussion: “The Holocaust in International Law and Academic Research”

Panelists: Professor Philippe de Lara (France),Professor Norman Naimark (USA), Dr. Anatoly Podolsky (Ukraine)

Moderators: Myroslav Marynovych (Ukraine), Professor Maksym Hon (Ukraine)

15:15 – 15:30 Break.

15:30 – 17:00 Panel Discussion: “Babyn Yar: Symbol of the Holocaust and Other Tragedies”

Panelists: Professor Karel Berkhoff (The Netherlands), Dr. Kiril Feferman (Israel), Dr. Vitalii Nakhmanovych (Ukraine)

Moderators: Professor Wolf Moskovich (Israel), Dr. Igor Shchupak (Ukraine)

17:00 – 17:15 Break.

17:15 – 18:45 Panel Discussion: “Babyn Yar: Paradigms of Memory”

Panelists: Dr. Toomas Hiio (Estonia), Dr. Andreas Umland (Germany), Dr. Volodymyr Viatrovych (Ukraine).

Moderators: Dr. Vladyslav Hrynevych (Ukraine), Professor Alla Kiridon (Ukraine).

18:45 – 19:00 Break.

19:00 – 20:00 Theatrical Performance. Valiza (The Suitcase), by Małgozata Sikorska-Mishchuk Performed by Nash Teatr (Kyiv)—Nazarii Paniv, director Student actors: Dana Broshkova, Filip Diedkovskyi, Krystyna Korniichuk, and Vlad Lysak,

Kyiv National University of Culture and the Arts.

Sept. 27—Tuesday

9:30 – 11:00 Public Symposium

Panel Discussion: “Babyn Yar in Personal Accounts”

Panelists: Professor Gelinada Grinchenko (Ukraine), Dr. Oleksandr Lysenko (Ukraine), Anna Lenchovska (Ukraine).

Moderators: Professor Guido Hausmann (Germany), Professor Shimon Redlich (Israel).

11:00 – 11:15 Break.

11:15 – 12:45 Panel Discussion: “Babyn Yar in Literary Representations.”

Panelists: Larysa Denysenko (Ukraine), Dr. Oleksii Kuznetsov (Russia), Professor Iryna Zakharchuk (Ukraine)

Moderators: Dr. Kiril Feferman (Israel), Professor Frank Golczewski (Germany)

12:45 – 14:15 Break.

14:15 – 15:45 Panel Discussion: “Babyn Yar in Cinema, Music, and the Arts.”

Panelists: Dr. Inessa Dvuzhylna (Belarus), Dr. Boris Maftsir (Israel), Valerii Teteriatnyk (Ukraine)

Moderators: Professor Karel Berkhoff (Netherlands), Andrii Kulikov (Ukraine)

15:45 – 16:00 Break.

16:00 – 17:30 Book Launch: Babyn Yar: History and Memory (Kyiv: Dukh i Litera, 2016).

Conversation with the authors and publisher. Leonid Finberg (Ukraine)

Moderators: Dr. Vladyslav Hrynevych (Ukraine), Professor Paul Robert Magocsi (Canada).

18:00 – 19:30 Film: “Shoes” (Ukraine—USA, 2015).

Conversation with author: Konstantin Fam (USA).

Moderator: Dr. Igor Shchupak (Ukraine).

Sept. 28—Wednesday

Babyn Yar Memorial Space—Necropolis International Landscape Design Competition

9:00 – 9:20 Introductory Remarks. Dr. Vitalii Nakhmanovych (Ukraine).

9:20 – 10:00 Documentary Film: “Babyn Yar in Search of Memory.” (Volodymyr Cheppel, director, Ukraine, 2016).

10:00 – 10:20 Remarks by: Ukrainian Jewish Encounter, National Union of Architects of Ukraine, Ukrainian Institute of National Remembrance, Department for Urban Planning and Architecture; City of Kyiv State Administration.

10:20 – 11:00 Remarks by Representatives of the Jury. Olivier Philippe, International Union of Architects (France), Serhiy Tselovalnyk, Chief Architect of Kyiv, 2010-2015 (Ukraine).

11:00 – 12:00 Presentation of the Winning Project Designs.Second place: Miloš Kosec, Nejc Lebar, Maja Valentic (Slovenia).Second place: Glenn Pouliquen (France).Third place: Peter Miles, Miriam Gusevich (USA).12:00 – 12:40 Conversation with competition winners.

12:40 – 13:00 Closing remarks: Ministry of Culture of Ukraine, Ukrainian Jewish Encounter.

13:00 – 14:30 Break.

14:30 – 15:45 Address: “Genocide in World History.” Professor Norman Naimark (USA), presentation in English.Moderator: Adrian Karatnycky (USA)

Sept. 29—Thursday

9:00 – 10:15 Address: “Modern War and Modern Culture in Ukraine: A Poet’s Perspective”Serhiy Zhadan (Ukraine).Moderator: Dr. Lyudmila Hrynevych (Ukraine) in Ukrainian.